Metaray basket It’s one of the most fascinating new lifestyle technologies I’ve encountered over the years – it’s me wearing them.
I don’t always have black rays baked on my face, and there’s good reason. Battery life is not good enough, and over time, it is getting worse and worse. On a recent UK trip I wore them on the beach and warned after only a long walk in the tidal pool.
Also impressive Smart glasses Yes, the battery problem is just some problems that technology must solve. All signs suggest that adding features, such as wristbands with built-in displays and gesture controls, will open up new possibilities, but will also increase price and complexity.
Meta’s glasses Connect to the 2025 conference It’s only a few weeks from September 17 to 18. What should we expect? What needs to be solved? This is what I think New AR product wave It seems ready to arrive.
Patrick Holland of CNET tested a pair of Google glasses with displays at the company’s May Developer conference.
What will the embedded monitor inside the smart glasses do?
Although the bulkier, more practical Ar glasses have no clear focus (Magic Leap, Magic Leap 2 and Snapshot glasses), the current wave of AI-enabled smart glasses pioneered by Meta Ray-Bans completely missed the display. The onboard audio and cameras do not show enough functionality in the lens, providing enough functionality at a lower price and smaller size to make the meta-ray play truly wearable.
But it supports display smart glasses. Like reality, some outliers have been there. Such as Rokid glasses and Rayneo X3 Pro It’s getting smaller and smaller. Google and Samsung It is expected to eventually have their own smart glasses. I tried the prototype demo Recent Developer Meeting with Google at the end of last year Showcased some demonstrations.
Meta will become a key player on the deck. The expected pair of display-enabled smart glasses codes are “Hypernova” The cost is about $800 And maybe with gesture sensing wristband packaging (I tried a pair of concepts last year Meta-earn glasses).
It makes sense that Meta is expected to also have next-generation glasses with the developer toolkit. What will this display or display be used for? Most smart glass manufacturers are still trying to answer this question.
Some of the display uses, notifications and AI chat results, translation subtitles and pop-up navigation that I have seen in the demo are some of the display uses. It reminds me of the old Google Glass Days.
Like USB-CC-TENEDENDEREVES glasses Xreal One and Viture Luma Proit can provide high-quality video, wireless display smart glasses may come with lower-quality displays that are not always the same.
Smart glasses manufacturers need not only manage functionality and battery life. They must also be cautiously distracted. Pop-up displays in daily glasses can pose safety challenges, especially when driving. It can also make daily activities and interactions weird by adding a display layer that hinders your personal life.
The ball is on their court. We just need tech giants to prove how they work early and the value they will add to more expensive products.
Meta’s latest Oakley HSTN glasses improve battery life. Will others follow?
Battery life: How to get better (not degraded)?
Meta’s second-generation ray basket debuted about two years ago and I hope the company announced an upgrade. But the problem is that over time, the battery life of the couple I’ve been using has degraded. These glasses never lasted until the previous expense, maybe a few hours, and at most half a day. Now, I find that the medium uses can drain the battery in over an hour.
As you use charge cycles, the battery of consumer technology wears out over time. I would love to replace or repair the battery in my ray ammunition, but that was impossible. I even asked Alex Himel, the wearables manager at Meta, About Earlier this year. “This is definitely the problem we’re going to solve, but we don’t have a good solution right now,” he said.
The assumption of smart glasses is that you will upgrade them every few years. I also want to be able to keep the framework I like and serve it. Many glasses owners may feel the same way.
At the same time, future smart glasses can see some improvements in battery life. Meta’s latest Oakley smart glasses Promising to improve battery life in previous meta-ray explosions, although they are still only expected to last about 8 hours or so. And, if more features are added to the next generation of smart glasses, it can further reduce battery life.
Prescription support: It needs improvement
There is a question mark for prescriptions in smart glasses. I think these issues have been solved, but I overlooked the fact that the lens on the ray light is custom. Meta’s own storefront only supports a prescription of -6.00, which is much lower than my own vision of -8.00.
Snapshot glasses – Mature AR glasses currently appearing in the form of developers, planned to be released Mainstream version Next year – Still not supported prescription inserts that fit my eyes. Recently, I have had even greater success with VR headsets that typically support plugging along a wide range of third-party lenses.
While Meta’s ray display is currently working with standard glasses lenses, it may change soon. Expected pair of high-end “Hypernova” glasses At least one display will be displayed in the lens in a meta that can be announced in a few weeks. This could mean that prescription support will come in the form of inserts, just like VR and AR glasses.
Early signs of Rokid glasses are like a pair of upcoming showcase AI glasses I first watched a week ago. Rokid’s $600 solution looks as small as meta-ray seeding, while adding a monochrome display to the lens. The prescription support comes with a magnetic insert, can be ordered separately, and looks relatively easy to pop (and is small and does not affect the appearance of the glasses).
These prescription plugins give me some hope because the lens that handles metaray seeding is not as easy as I expected. Before the optical smoothing process, the smart glasses industry can complete the lens insert through external sources, which may be a better plan.
These Rokid glasses, which will arrive later this year, have built-in displays, cameras and audio, and can also be connected to Openai. Their pop-up magnetic prescription plug-in also provides an alternative to in-store repair lenses.
I want better AI, cameras and audio, too
Besides that, it would be great if the next smart glasses are made for the current glasses, but better. Meta’s Ray-Bans hangs only in Meta AI, which allows only a few connections to music apps and calendars. To be truly useful, AI glasses should be as closely connected to mobile phones as our apps and lives.
This synchronization requires trust, allowing hooks to insert AI to access data, or allowing these glasses to work with more AI platforms. If someone does everything on Chatgpt or Gemini, how would it work with Meta Ray-Bans?
I was impressed by the audio of ray broadcasting, but a lot of external noises drown the conversation. I’m not sure how the noise reduction method works on open audio glasses, but maybe there’s a way. After all, Apple has developed noise on the more widened AirPods 4, thus eliminating noise.
The camera can also be improved. Currently, the ray basket is only shooting in wide-angle vertical mode. I want to zoom in and do a landscape shot. Zoom will be a challenge, but landscape mode will be a welcome addition – or at least a way to not shoot everything at such a wide angle. It would be fun to add a second camera to True 3D video, which can be used with the Task Headset or Apple Vision Pro.
What happens to privacy?
For some people, wearing AI glasses with cameras is already a big danger. It has attracted people’s attention About Invisible Records Or cause panic about conversations and images that AI services can suck through glasses.
Meta is not a company that anyone seeks good privacy answers. As glasses begin to develop more consistent functions, the problem will become increasingly bigger. Yuan Settings have been deleted On its mobile app, the app once lets you exit the cloud where your voice recordings are stored. As Mark Zuckerberg and others say the perfect AI device says, if glasses are indeed true, then how will they help us manage privacy better? Or does glasses only speed up data that is always collected?
Meta uses the sound of the camera shutter and white LED lights to indicate when its smart glasses will take pictures or record videos, but these metrics are subtle and not enough to help relieve anxiety.
Glasses flood is coming
I recommend sticking with buying any new smart glasses until the end of the next few months, especially in Meta-connection Meeting summary. Many new glasses should be on the way, even in 2026.
We will see the industry’s pace of progress on a formula that suddenly proves unexpected benefits, or whether the pain of growth is harder than we think.
